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maxwel

Senior Member
Apr 18, 2013
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#21
Folks, when you post a ton of info it falls on deaf ears. Do you not understand that? When you post beyond a few lines interest fades quickly. Why? because you aren't posting anything from you. It is copy and paste or link. Only those who are close to you, your friends or someone closely following a thread that pay attention to lengthy posts.

Want someone to skip over your post? Make it it long and laborious to read.
If you have something from the bible it simply doesn't take that many lines or posts to be of interest..

Want someone to ignore your posts? Make it long.
Excuse me?

Some of us are quite capable of boring everyone into a deep, mindless coma without resorting to copy/paste.

: )
 
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DesiredHaven

Guest
#22
Since this is a good place to whine about posting, I've got one most don't consider. I'm bifocaled already with a second pair of glasses just for computer time. I can't take too much italics, too much coloring, bolding, underlining, etc. in a single post. It makes it too disjointed. I also know a couple of folks with epilepsy that have a chance of a seizure if they see red. "Ignore it" doesn't necessarily work. Rather like trying to ignore an elephant. It's noticeable.

Folks can just click the ignore button, that means they will never see a post you make, thats the kind of ignore I am speaking of.

I am very blind I make posts large to read and reduce them to post, and I use colors in books and in posts and have for many years as that is how I study to follow closely the words.

All this is nothing new though, I have been online for over ten years myself I have people adopting the colors and people hating the colors, some hated them at first then loved them, people are just different. I think people just love to gripe though. Use the ignore button, save one another from each of yourselves.

One of my best freinds Chrissie who I met on the forums is legally blind and they help her and others who are elderly like my freinds Charlene, both cant see, and they enable them.

So those who gripe they cant see, consider those who actually can, and if they bother one person that ignore button is just awesome, its one of the best features a board can have, the person goes "poof"! and disapears.

I would be curious would know if the words of God (in redletter) or any colors online ( or as its written in the books in red) has actually caused seizures as well.

Like, if Gods words lack any real power (even as written) to prevent such a thing for another.

People with that problem shouldnt be online where there is colors on things like avatars if that is so.
 
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Tintin

Guest
#23
I wish people would do that more often, since I've seen several instances of people posting copyrighted material, and judging from the speed it took them to respond to a question, they didn't ask permission to use it. Adding the source and that it is copyrighted, doesn't make it any less plagiarism. If you take without asking, it's stealing.

I get it's because most don't know copyright laws, but it seems it ought to become important to learn them. Same deal with the photo artwork, the illustrations posted, the funny signs, and anything that isn't yours to use. Unless it's public domain, or your own, you have to ask to use it.

Honestly? Every Bible version is also copyrighted too. The owners are less strict about using them, but there are limits. (I've never wholesaled used beyond the limits, but the one I learned about was the easiest limits -- the KJV. The Queen Mum owns the copyright, and the rules are no more than 2,000 verses without asking. lol Most others are far less than that.)
True. Except for the NET Bible. You're not allowed to sell it, but you can use it freely.
 
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DesiredHaven

Guest
#24
One thing I don't get is how there are always like 10x as many guests as there are members... What the heck lol, I wish they would join in...
Because they could be smarter not to involved themselves in most of our conversations.

I used to go as a lurker for a time to find ideas to study, and would spend the entire days studying something out and just keep it to myself. And the next day I would browse just for ideas to sit alone all day and look into for myself without any wrangling, or interuptions, that was nice too actually.
 

Reborn

Senior Member
Nov 16, 2014
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#25
Folks, when you post a ton of info it falls on deaf ears. Do you not understand that? When you post beyond a few lines interest fades quickly. Why? because you aren't posting anything from you. It is copy and paste or link. Only those who are close to you, your friends or someone closely following a thread that pay attention to lengthy posts.

Want someone to skip over your post? Make it it long and laborious to read.
If you have something from the bible it simply doesn't take that many lines or posts to be of interest..

Want someone to ignore your posts? Make it long.

Too long Phil.
Complain in fewer words. :p
 
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DesiredHaven

Guest
#27
Yeah, but you have interesting stuff to say. I can read you fine, and do, if it's not color coded. I don't want to ignore you. I simply can't take all the color coding and changes in formatting. (Your choice of course. Just letting you know why I don't respond more often to you. Nothing personal.)

On the good side, yay! Long winded to long winded. lol
Hey I used to use 3-4 colors I have toned down, I have sought other ways to hight such as the next sentence.

I dont like speaking from myself though because it invites strifes.

When folks cant latch on to your words theres nothing to strive or wrest with except for scripture and if they do they will have to begin handling it (if they can) or wresting with it (if they cant) and that will just look really bad (on them) to begin doing that.

Thats why once and awhile I will either shut up completely or just test whether that person is combative by sprinkling a couple of my own words through (in a sentence or two) and then watch what they do.

Because you can post 100 lines of scripture (just as I did that on a thread we were both on) and only post a couple of lines from myself talking (saying something no one with half a brain cant understand) and after they have been sitting there for hours (and hour and hours) trying to figure out what to wrangle with, your own words are that provision and thats what is typically taken up. That just seems to be how it is.

That highlighting thing though is very tedious, so its not something you just do for kicks, it really does help for bad sight, my books have large print and look like a bunch of rainbow pages.

And if I run across a post and it isnt broken up, or highlighted or underlined (being too lenghty) I will overpass their posts as well. Unless I really like that poster, then I will take their post back to my forum, blow it up and read it.

Its just true that people are different, as my eyes are likely not as good as theirs (normally) so we have that and peoples preferences.

And some come to argue, others to sow (there are others lurk and say nothing) while some others love moreso to play around, joke and not involve themselves in planting the word of God in this particular arena.

I might blind those who have decent natural eyesight and yet help those whose eyesight (such as my freind Chrissie are for the most part near blind (in respects to the same).

I will try to remember to highlight the posts before posting and turn it all black (when I remember) and if I forget I will go back and edit if I can beat that 5 minute edit timer.
 
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VioletReigns

Guest
#29
Excuse me?

Some of us are quite capable of boring everyone into a deep, mindless coma without resorting to copy/paste.

: )
I resemble that remark!!!!! :eek:
 
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VioletReigns

Guest
#30
I do post long stuff often. I try to use color... and paragraphs.... sometimes "quotation marks".

And I try to make what I post interesting so I don't lose my audience.
zzzz-z-z-zz-snnxxxkkllllzzz-z-zzzz +_+

But I guess interesting is relative. There's just no accounting for the public's taste, I guess. heehee:eek:
 

Blain

The Word Weaver
Aug 28, 2012
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#31
I can read long posts granted there are paragraphs that are spaced out. I can't stand reading a long post with every word together
 
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#32
I only read long posts if they're:

A) interesting
B) not a load of bollocks
C) actually written by the poster (not a copy and paste job)

If someone wants to post something that requires more effort, they should just provide a link to the website.
I am going to keep this short ;) what if you don't have the link for the website :confused:?
 
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Tintin

Guest
#34
I am going to keep this short ;) what if you don't have the link for the website :confused:?
Well, if you're posting content (copying and pasting) that's not your own, you obviously got the content from somewhere online.
 
Jan 25, 2015
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#36
Well, if you're posting content (copying and pasting) that's not your own, you obviously got the content from somewhere online.
I sometimes copy and paste from a website and save it to read later. I guess I am keeping things too myself from now on :p
 
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Tintin

Guest
#37
I sometimes copy and paste from a website and save it to read later. I guess I am keeping things too myself from now on :p
Nothing wrong with that, but it's important to include the link in your copy and paste job (not to CC).
 
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Miri

Guest
#38
Ah yes good people
the problem of long posts.

Once upon a time
a very long time ago
before the days of Noah
and possibly before the
Tower of Babel,
lengthy hand written
essays and dissertations
were not only encouraged
they were demanded,
accompanied with correct
grammar (or is that grandma
just putting that in to see if
you are still reading
:D).
Then along came Babel,
texting, facebook and
numerous social media
sites.

A whole new world
opened up and for
the first time a person
could divulge their
deepest darkest
secrets to the
entire world
with one click of
a button.

However, so could
everyone else.
So in an attempt
to make sure your
deepest darkest
secrets were read
first, strange new
words were introduced
such as lol, C u ltr,
Op, thx the like of
which had never
been seen before.
(if you are still
reading give yourself
a medal).

Then some people
discovered they could
sum up all of their
deepest darkest
secrets with one
symbol such as
:mad::confused::eek:.

Additionally words
such as eh, aargh,
Zzzzz, sigh started
to become very
popular, whereas
words such as thee,
thy and thine become
lost.

Mankind pondered over
this and started to
wonder what language
was spoken before Babel
but no one could remember.
So they lol and time
moved on with words
and posts getting shorter
and shorter, until
one day the only
sound that could
be heard was the
occasional grunt
and big foot was born!

So the moral of this
story, is, actually
I haven't a clue I just
wanted to
annoy everyone with
a long post. :p
 
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Tintin

Guest
#39
Ah yes good people
the problem of long posts.

Once upon a time
a very long time ago
before the days of Noah
and possibly before the
Tower of Babel,
lengthy hand written
essays and dissertations
were not only encouraged
they were demanded,
accompanied with correct
grammar (or is that grandma
just putting that in to see if
you are still reading
:D).
Then along came Babel,
texting, facebook and
numerous social media
sites.

A whole new world
opened up and for
the first time a person
could divulge their
deepest darkest
secrets to the
entire world
with one click of
a button.

However, so could
everyone else.
So in an attempt
to make sure your
deepest darkest
secrets were read
first, strange new
words were introduced
such as lol, C u ltr,
Op, thx the like of
which had never
been seen before.
(if you are still
reading give yourself
a medal).

Then some people
discovered they could
sum up all of their
deepest darkest
secrets with one
symbol such as
:mad::confused::eek:.

Additionally words
such as eh, aargh,
Zzzzz, sigh started
to become very
popular, whereas
words such as thee,
thy and thine become
lost.

Mankind pondered over
this and started to
wonder what language
was spoken before Babel
but no one could remember.
So they lol and time
moved on with words
and posts getting shorter
and shorter, until
one day the only
sound that could
be heard was the
occasional grunt
and big foot was born!

So the moral of this
story, is, actually
I haven't a clue I just
wanted to
annoy everyone with
a long post. :p
Silly me, then. That was one of the more enjoyable posts I've read today on CC. :)
 

iamsoandso

Senior Member
Oct 6, 2011
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#40
the thing that a person believes in their heart comes out of their mouths(in this case it comes from their fingers on the keyboard),,,reply